PaRCha - JNU - All Organisations - 2013 ID-56217
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speakers.
OPEN HOUSE .
Prof. Kamal M. Chenoy,SIS, JNUJNU PRESS: Prof. Surinder S. Jhodhka,CSSS,JNUHow to Ensure Democratic .
Prof. Nivedita Menon,SIS,JNUAccess and Dissemination of .
Shuddhabrata Sengupta,Sarai,CSDS.
Knowledge .
Dr. Parnal Chirmuley,CGS,JNU1 OCT TONIGHT Tapobrata, Lawyers' CollectiveGODAVARI MESS 9.30PM ------------------.
" ... With enough ofUS1 aroundthe world, we'.
llnotjustsendastrong message opposing theprivatizationofknowledge-we'll make it a thing of the past"-Aaron Swartz, Guerrilla Open Access Manifesto,.
2008. .
Since March 2012, the JNU student community and JNUSU have been demanding the establishment of a JNU Press,which will facilitate the publication and wider dissemination of research done in JNU. Today, at a time when this demand·has been accepted by the JNU administration, it is extremely important to ensure that any decision on the model,.
·functioning and modalities of the JNU press be taken only after adequate deliberations of the wider JNU community,including students as well as faculty members. The need for wider deliberations is all the more important given the non-.
transparent manner in which decisions regarding the JNU Press have been taken till now. JNUSU has therefore decided to call a series of open deliberations on this issue-and the Open House called today is the beginning of this process. .
The establishment of a Press, and the subsequent publication and dissemination of research done in JNU raises concernsthat have to be addressed. We live in times when there are systematic attempts the world overto curb academic freedom,to curtail the free dissemination of knowledge, to commercialise the distribution of research. We however also live in times.
when the Open Access movement is thriving, when thousands of individuals and groups around the world are working outways and means to oppose such moves. When we, as part of the JNU community, begin to think about what we need and .. want from the JNU Press, we have to ask ourselves: How do we ensure that research done in JNU is widely and freelycirculated? Dowe want a model which will curtail our academic freedom, that will give publication houses the right to rejecta manuscript because of their ideological predilections, or because the research does not suit the 'market'? .
It is important that we, as part of the JNU community, collectively set down the principles which will govern the functioning.
of the JNU Press.An autonomous and academically independent press, where decisions will not be dictated by commercialinterests, and which will try to ensure the widest possible access to research should be our priority. Let us not forget thatseveral alternatives that have been produced in variousexperiments all over the world. .
The desire foran alternative to the models of'copyright' was sparked off almost a decade ago all over the world. The debate.
over copyright and free access came closer home when three major publishing houses-the Cambridge University Press,the Oxford University Press and Taylor & Francis-filed a lawsuit against the Rameshwari Photocopy Shop and the.
University of Delhi for xeroxing and creating course packs. This anti-student move makes it all the more imperative for us,.
at this juncture to evolve new models of publication, so that the principle that knowledge can be or is privately owned isrobustly resisted. .
And it is this principlethat has brought together activists, computer programmers, academics, lawyers, artists and authorsamong others in the form of several different experiments of the Copyleft movement. The Copyleft movement, whichencompasses initiatives such as open-source coding, creative commons licencing as well as now a probing into variouskinds of publication possibilities that allow for free, perhaps electronic forms of distribution of knowledge. .
It is precisely to discuss these ideas that the JNUSU has called the Open House tonight. JNUSU appeals to the studentcommunity to participate in the Open House at Godavari mess tonight, from 9.30 pm onwards, to discuss variousoptions available regarding the model and functioning of the JNU Press. .
JNUSUcongratulates the student community for p.articipating in today's Protest against the threatening circular issued by the administrationduring the Aug2013agitation. Following the protest, a delegation of JNUSU along with representatives of various organisations met theVC. The VC, after thedeliberation, assured that administration will not curb or interfere with any mode of protests that has beentraditionally exercised bythe JNU student community inthecampus and which has been an integral part of JNU.
'sdemocratic ethos.The administrationwill also issue a statement to this effect. JNUSUand JNU student community is committed to vigilantly fight anyadministrative interference and arbitrariness to defend our democratic spaces and rights for a more democratic and egalitarian JNU. .
Akbar, Sandeep Saurav Sarfaraz,.
President, JNUSU Gen.Secy,JNUSU Jt. Secy, JNUSU .
.
PaRCha - JNU - All Organisations - 2013 ID-56217
.
-----Join an---------------.
speakers.
OPEN HOUSE .
Prof. Kamal M. Chenoy,SIS, JNUJNU PRESS: Prof. Surinder S. Jhodhka,CSSS,JNUHow to Ensure Democratic .
Prof. Nivedita Menon,SIS,JNUAccess and Dissemination of .
Shuddhabrata Sengupta,Sarai,CSDS.
Knowledge .
Dr. Parnal Chirmuley,CGS,JNU1 OCT TONIGHT Tapobrata, Lawyers' CollectiveGODAVARI MESS 9.30PM ------------------.
" ... With enough ofUS1 aroundthe world, we'.
llnotjustsendastrong message opposing theprivatizationofknowledge-we'll make it a thing of the past"-Aaron Swartz, Guerrilla Open Access Manifesto,.
2008. .
Since March 2012, the JNU student community and JNUSU have been demanding the establishment of a JNU Press,which will facilitate the publication and wider dissemination of research done in JNU. Today, at a time when this demand·has been accepted by the JNU administration, it is extremely important to ensure that any decision on the model,.
·functioning and modalities of the JNU press be taken only after adequate deliberations of the wider JNU community,including students as well as faculty members. The need for wider deliberations is all the more important given the non-.
transparent manner in which decisions regarding the JNU Press have been taken till now. JNUSU has therefore decided to call a series of open deliberations on this issue-and the Open House called today is the beginning of this process. .
The establishment of a Press, and the subsequent publication and dissemination of research done in JNU raises concernsthat have to be addressed. We live in times when there are systematic attempts the world overto curb academic freedom,to curtail the free dissemination of knowledge, to commercialise the distribution of research. We however also live in times.
when the Open Access movement is thriving, when thousands of individuals and groups around the world are working outways and means to oppose such moves. When we, as part of the JNU community, begin to think about what we need and .. want from the JNU Press, we have to ask ourselves: How do we ensure that research done in JNU is widely and freelycirculated? Dowe want a model which will curtail our academic freedom, that will give publication houses the right to rejecta manuscript because of their ideological predilections, or because the research does not suit the 'market'? .
It is important that we, as part of the JNU community, collectively set down the principles which will govern the functioning.
of the JNU Press.An autonomous and academically independent press, where decisions will not be dictated by commercialinterests, and which will try to ensure the widest possible access to research should be our priority. Let us not forget thatseveral alternatives that have been produced in variousexperiments all over the world. .
The desire foran alternative to the models of'copyright' was sparked off almost a decade ago all over the world. The debate.
over copyright and free access came closer home when three major publishing houses-the Cambridge University Press,the Oxford University Press and Taylor & Francis-filed a lawsuit against the Rameshwari Photocopy Shop and the.
University of Delhi for xeroxing and creating course packs. This anti-student move makes it all the more imperative for us,.
at this juncture to evolve new models of publication, so that the principle that knowledge can be or is privately owned isrobustly resisted. .
And it is this principlethat has brought together activists, computer programmers, academics, lawyers, artists and authorsamong others in the form of several different experiments of the Copyleft movement. The Copyleft movement, whichencompasses initiatives such as open-source coding, creative commons licencing as well as now a probing into variouskinds of publication possibilities that allow for free, perhaps electronic forms of distribution of knowledge. .
It is precisely to discuss these ideas that the JNUSU has called the Open House tonight. JNUSU appeals to the studentcommunity to participate in the Open House at Godavari mess tonight, from 9.30 pm onwards, to discuss variousoptions available regarding the model and functioning of the JNU Press. .
JNUSUcongratulates the student community for p.articipating in today's Protest against the threatening circular issued by the administrationduring the Aug2013agitation. Following the protest, a delegation of JNUSU along with representatives of various organisations met theVC. The VC, after thedeliberation, assured that administration will not curb or interfere with any mode of protests that has beentraditionally exercised bythe JNU student community inthecampus and which has been an integral part of JNU.
'sdemocratic ethos.The administrationwill also issue a statement to this effect. JNUSUand JNU student community is committed to vigilantly fight anyadministrative interference and arbitrariness to defend our democratic spaces and rights for a more democratic and egalitarian JNU. .
Akbar, Sandeep Saurav Sarfaraz,.
President, JNUSU Gen.Secy,JNUSU Jt. Secy, JNUSU .
.